Heavy GearMissions

Mission 006 – Objective Playtesting!

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Last month, we published a new set of secondary objectives in the HGBTS 0.3.1 document, available here:

HGB Tournament System

Instead of using the missions from the main rulebook, the tournament organizer may instead require using the following objectives:

  • Special Operations (SO) – Assassinate*, Raid
  • General Purpose (GP) – Hold*, Flags
  • Strike (SK) – Capture*, Pave the Way
  • Fire Support (FS) – Wipe Them Out*, Claim
  • Recon (RC) – Detailed Scan*, Break The Line*

*These missions are in the main rulebook.

We’re really interested in feedback on Claim, this month!

If you want to reach more about it, you can do so here:

Objectives in Heavy Gear Blitz

Thanks to Phil for writing in last month with his experiences on the new Flags objective!

Heavy Gear Battle Report

The Mission

Given the current situation around the world, it’s hard to hold in person tournaments, so we’ll try to simulate the tournament process by doing the following:

  1. Find a willing opponent!
  2. Try out some of the new objectives, either in a HGBTS mission or outside, your choice!
  3. Play a game, please take pictures!
  4. Write up a quick battle report with the results (please include picture, and share it with [email protected]!
Battle Report Template

Please use the above battle report template and share it with [email protected], it makes the uploading process and managing pictures much easier! You don’t have to annotate the pictures, but they’re very important for context. It’s important to get a feel for table layout, terrain density, average engagement range, that sort of thing.

Rules and Prizes

  • You have till the end of November, 2021 to submit a battle report which includes:
    • A few pictures of your table
    • Army lists, preferably with the Gear Grinder link
    • An estimate of how long your game took
    • What objectives you chose!
    • Final score and remaining TV (what was left alive)
  • Please share the Google Doc you generate with [email protected]!
  • As part of your submission, please send the email you used for the DP9 store so we can get you store credit!
  • Your first ever submission to Lumbering Sprocket will get you 5 points of store credit on store.dp9.com! If you submitted previously, you’re sadly not eligible for this, but you ARE eligible for the random drawing!
  • We’ll randomly select a winner from the list of participants to get 20 additional points of credit!

Since we’re looking to evaluate mission balance, we need to ensure as consistent a play experience from our play tests as possible. Please try to keep house rules to a minimum, especially if they have large effects on gameplay. If you want some guidance on terrain, have a look here:

A Grizzly End

Note that you don’t have to do one this detailed! We’re really interested in:

  • General flow of the game
  • Any balance issues you find
  • Any mistakes/clarity improvements

That’s it! Happy gaming!